I am a home-school mom hoping to share the challenges, joys and disappointments in home-schooling,be an encouragement to others, seek advise and wisdom from those who have come before me and offer my insight to different curriculum by posting product reviews, etc

Living in Texas there is about 4-5 months out of the year it is simply miserable to go outside during the daytime hours. You get stuck inside your house day in and day out, unless you want to shell out some cash to go find some other activity inside to do. We live on a tight rope budget, so when I ran across this I fell in love.

There is a sentence I despise hearing in my home, "Mom, I'm Bored, what can we do?". I think this irks me the most because my kids have an over abundance of toys, video games for the Wii and DS, three cats, a dog, a huge back yard to romp in and they have each other, but for some unknown reason my lovely little munchkins never seem to have anything to do inside the house.

I thought about rewriting this next part, but Anna said it just right that it needs no improvement. So is as we say is straight from the horses mouth as we southerners like to say!

"This could be the most amazing idea I have ever seen. The I'm Bored Jar. There are so many variations of things you can do with this that it makes it the perfect customizable summer idea! I sat the girls (ok i have one girl and 2 boys, but who cares) down and we came up with a list of about 50 different "I'm bored activities". I will have them pull a card and do each activity for 30 minutes. Once the card is drawn I will move it out of the box until all of the other cards are drawn."

Her ideas were so brilliant that I loved that our family could use so many of her ideas and than we added in our own and deleted the ones that didn't apply to us! Once we finish making our own box I will add in a pic of the box with the cards of ideas. Thank you Anna for such a wonderful idea!